Rocket Ranger - Lunarium codes don't work

[robrh]

Hi Everyone. I am playing Rocket Ranger, and the Lunarium codes don't work. I am entering 23 for the amount of Lunarium to get from the USA to the Atlantic right at the beginning while the zeppelin icon is showing over the Atlantic, so I can rescue Professor Barnstorff, but I keep falling into the ocean.
 
Any idea why the codes aren't working?

[wiser3]

Hi Everyone. I am playing Rocket Ranger, and the Lunarium codes don't work. I am entering 23 for the amount of Lunarium to get from the USA to the Atlantic right at the beginning while the zeppelin icon is showing over the Atlantic, so I can rescue Professor Barnstorff, but I keep falling into the ocean.
 
Any idea why the codes aren't working?

Try entering 31.

There were at least two releases of this game. One for North America and one Europe. The two versions used different decoder wheels and therefore different Lunarium amounts.

Try downloading and using this Lunarium decoder.
http://www.trep4.com/_rocketranger/RocketRangerDecoderWheel.pdf
I will leave it available for a few days before taking it down. Hmmm.... maybe i'll make it available on the old Ami Cheats web site.
http://www.trep4.com/amicheats/classics/r/rocketranger.html

[Lizard]

You could also try to install the game to HD with WHDLoad.
Then you can press tab ingame to get the codes.

http://www.whdload.de/games/RocketRanger.html

[robrh]

That was it! I must have the European version.  

Too bad too because it looks like the Lunarium usage is about 50% more than the American version.

Thanks for the help and for the decoder wheel chart!

[e5frog]

Seems to be hard to find this information on the PAL version but I took the available scans and spent a few hours making a working wheel from the table I got back in the day. It's almost the same as the C64 version that can be found here:
http://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/Rocket_Ranger

It differs in about 8-10 positions, mostly on the last ones on Egypt (haven't tried the C64 version so I can't say that one is correct).

Here are my new images, all the values that differed from the C64 versions were checked in game and it turned out my chart was correct:
http://postimg.org/gallery/1kce1959q/

[lionstorm]

hey thanks ! must try it again but I suck at launching the rocket !